I don't get it. You are animating the "form" off the screen (more or less). What is the purpose of the controls if the form will be gone?

If you just want a snap shot of the controls, you can BitBlt them from the window to the "animating" form's DIB and they will display in the animation. But they'll just be snapshots of the controls.

I don't think I am following you completely; at least not from what your video displayed.